The Mystery Writers of America announced the winners of the 2016 Edgar Awards on April 28.
Among them is Stephen King’s “Obits,” which was just nominated for a Hugo in the Best Novelette category.
Best Novel
- Let Me Die in His Footsteps by Lori Roy (Penguin Random House – Dutton)
Best First Novel
- The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove Atlantic – Grove Press)
Best Paperback Original
- The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney (HarperCollin Publishers – William Morrow)
Best Fact Crime
- Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully by Allen Kurzweil (HarperCollins Publishers – Harper)
Best Juvenile
- Footer Davis Probably is Crazy Susan Vaught (Simon & Schuster – Paula Wiseman Books)
Best Young Adult
- A Madness So Discreet by by Mindy McGinnis (HarperCollins Publishers – Katherine Tegen Books)
Best Short Story
- “Obits” – Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King (Simon & Schuster – Scribner)
TV Episode Teleplay
- “Gently with the Women” – George Gently, Teleplay by Peter Flannery (Acorn TV)
Robert L. Fish Memorial
- “Chung Ling Soo’s Greatest Trick” – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Russell W. Johnson (Dell Magazines)
Mary Higgins Clark
- Little Pretty Things by Lori Rader-Day (Prometheus Books – Seventh Street Books)
Grand Master
- Walter Mosley
Raven Awards
- Margaret Kinsman, Sisters in Crime
Ellery Queen Award
- Janet Rudolph, Founder of Mystery Readers International